Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

["J. Clarke" <jclarke@nospam.invalid>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:33:22 +0200, Sami S. Sihvonen wrote:

> In article <b46m3j$m6b$1@panix5.panix.com>,
> jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) wrote:
> 
>>>> Or you can find someone getting rid of an AIX box
>>> IBM is dumping the whole operating system, not just one AIX box...
>>> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-982512.html
>> I have mixed feelings about all this.
>> I'm a Linux user and advocate, but 
> 
> I have no mixed feelings, just pure love for big blue IBM. They are
> still one of the major players in computer industry and everybody is
> very interested about what they are doing. Now they are putting some
> heavy weight on GNU/Linux...
> 
>> moreso I advocate diversity and choice in technology too.
> 
> GNU/Linux has source code available, there is freedom and diversity.
> There is no special "killer apps" that only work with GNU/Linux based
> systems, most of the applications can be run with several different
> operating systems out-of-the-box. 
> 
>> IBM gave up on OS/2 way too early,
> 
> IBM is still keeping OS/2 on life support, try searching Google with
> the magic words "OS/2 Merlin" for more details. 

???  I don't see any evidence that Merlin constitutes "keeping OS/2 on
life support".  I got my copy of Merlin on the order of 6 years ago.

>> How many years will it take for M$ to "reinvent" this technology too
>> so they can wean folks away from the FAT filesystems?
> 
> HPFS, NTFS, Xenix...

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